All we hear about at the bbc and msm is nonentities and minor “approved” talent, the groaning “Adele” and so many others with their jumping up an octave now and again to desperately convince etc etc for goodness sake…
Perhaps the BBC’s grubby far-Left ‘journalist’ Jonathan Head (known as ‘Dick’) should explain to us why we should bale these people out from the mess of their own making. Not that he cares one bit of course : this is classic BBC virtue-signaling.
It’s almost pure empathy using statements (which I’m sure he wrote or doctored himself) in an attempt to virtue signal how morally superior he is. Same as Bowen and Keane do.
Just for context, Head watched decent, innocent Thai men, women and children get blown up by M79 grenades by the left-wing Pheu-Thai government’s henchmen after they were protesting against a disgraceful amnesty bill to get Thaksin off his corruption convictions and he covered it up with the usual BBC weasel words. His description was ‘Anti-government protests which turned violent’.
The man is everything I despise about the BBC. That example is just one of many. He’s a nasty piece of work.
Stuffed Into Trucks, 78 Thai Protesters Died. Their Killers Are Still Free.
Twenty years ago, a massacre in southern Thailand fueled an insurgency that has never stopped. If no one is prosecuted for it by Friday, no one ever will be.
lol the ‘statute of limitations’ are a classic way Thai politicians evade prosecution. Many are just a few years – so they go abroad until it runs out then come back. They literally write the laws to cover them just in case they get caught.
The usual one is charges being dropped because of ‘lack of evidence’. Which is because it all disappears. Thaksin was/is one the dirtiest of all. He forces people to sign letters of resignation before he gives them a job. Then uses it to blackmail them if they cause trouble. He’s most famous for getting caught trying to bribe a judge:
‘Thailand jails Thaksin lawyers in “snack box” case’ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/thailand-jails-thaksin-lawyers-in-snack-box-case-idUSBKK260867/
Note the lawyers got jailed. Thaksin got away scott free. That’s how it works here.
‘he said his driver had mistakenly picked up the bag with the money instead of an identical one that contained chocolates he had meant to give to court officials.’
Whilst they massacre wherever they are in the majority around the world, what do they do here when they are in the minority?
“The statistics are sobering: Home Office data ending March 2024 shows that 38% of religious hate crimes recorded by the police were against Muslims. Over 70% of young Muslims in the UK who say they experience mental health struggles, also say they have been victims of Islamophobia.”
I could document my “mental health struggles” with the abuse regularly received as an English born whenever visiting my relatives in a Scottish village, or the similar at various Chinese airports with my suitcase ripped apart and things missing and held behind everyone else for examination, but I can’t be bothered, because I recognise that tribalism is a natural human trait.
If you think you can change behaviour or outlook through a DEI course good luck, the vast majority do not need to adjust their behaviour in this country. In muslim countries, hmm
In this edition Mr AsI gets ‘across’ the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda – or, in other rather more frank terms ‘our batsh*t eco-rules’
Following yesterday’s shock reports: ‘Fish disco’ row risks fresh delays to Hinkley Point nuclear plant (Financial Times); Starmer’s fish disco flap and bees buzzing after Cruiser SB crushed… DEFRA’s rejection of toxic pesticide Cruiser SB in a win for bees, but not British sugar… Why has Starmer declared war on green ‘zealots’ and fish discos? (The ENDS Report, ‘UK’s No 1 source of intelligence for environmental professionals, delivering news, analysis and reference across the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda.’)
Now today more shock news comes in that: Turbines will be painted black to cut bird deaths (Geraldine Scott, Senior Political Correspondent, The Times)
I see a red door
And I want it painted black
No colours anymore
I want them to turn black…
Maybe then, I’ll fade away
And not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facing up
When your whole world is… Green?
[apologies to The Rolling Stones, 1966]
EU will stick to its world-leading climate goals, even as it prepares to dilute some rules to soothe industry – the FT there with ‘even as’ a quaint little variation on the now all too familiar journalistic ‘despite’
BP went ‘too far, too fast’ over net zero… The chief executive of BP has admitted (Telegraph); BP returns to its roots in oil and gas after ‘misplaced’ optimism for green energy (FT)
But it’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m jumpin’ jack flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas
[The Rolling Stones, 1968]
Wind turbines will be painted black to stop birds flying into them in a bid to cut the number being killed by the blades. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs launched a government pilot this week (Times)
Seems there’s somewhat of a wind of change that’s a-blowing through the West.
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
[Bob Dylan, 1962]
The mildly conservative Telegraph boldly risks transgressing against the all-pervading ‘safety first’ regime: I’m happy to serve my guests food that’s out of date Prue Leith (Telegraph)
Mick Jagger, in his Jumpin’ Jack Flash persona, claimed to have been raised by a toothless, bearded hag…
Meanwhile, our delightful, charming deputy PM
Angela Rayner is right to criticise our batsh*t eco-rules…Last week, prime minister Keir Starmer cited the now notorious case of the HS2 ‘bat shed’ – a £100million tunnel built to protect a colony of Bechstein’s bats… The bat species in question is not endangered globally, and nor is there any evidence that trains would interfere with them. But according to the UK Treasury, any legal challenges that could arise from failing to protect the bats would be even costlier than the £100million price tag for the batshit bat shed. (Spiked)
Sometimes these segueways tend to write themselves…
Wuhan lab scientists in ‘ominous’ research… Chinese scientists… new experiments similar to those that may have triggered the Covid pandemic… found a bat coronovirus that can enter human cells… testing in human transgenic mice. (Telegraph)
Quick edit required: new experiments similar to those that may have triggered the Covid pandemic LOCKDOWNS which were a policy choice
But as they ease off – as dire economic needs must – on their Net Zero claptrap… work continues on the regime-driven tech-enabled total surveillance state…
Police to access drivers’ personal details… under Labour’s new crime law… 50 million motorists’ data held by… DVLA… names, addresses, date of births, photographs, endorsements, convictions, relevant medical information… to help the investigation of other crimes… Big Brother Watch… opening the door to the creation of a massive facial recognition database (Telegraph)
As BBC TV Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross used to say: “Don’t have nightmares”
“In the Altamont Pass in California, for example, one study found about 4,000 wind turbines killed 67 golden eagles and 1,127 birds of prey in a year. In southern Spain, 252 wind turbines located in an area used by many birds of prey and on the migratory path of many large birds killed a 124 birds of prey in a year.10 Apr 2013”
Saudi Arabia: £60 billion
Last year, it bought a £598 million ($824 million) stake in oil giant British Petroleum (BP), as well as British Telecom (BT) as part of its “bargain hunting spree”. Saudi investors also have holdings in Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
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Babies Born with Serious Conditions
It has been known for some time that birth defects, also known as congenital anomalies, are a major cause of illness and disability including infant mortality and that their incidence varies across ethnic groups in the UK. Other studies in the last 20 years have considered consanguinity (marriage to a blood relation), as a cause of birth defects, but these studies weren’t able to rule out other potential risk factors, particularly the effects of deprivation.
What we are doing about it
The study is the largest of its type ever conducted. The team examined detailed information collected about more than 11,300 babies involved in the Born in Bradford project.
………………. The wait is over and the time is now – Bradford 2025 is the new UK City of Culture. Explore our packed programme of events for 2025.
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The brave daughter who is tackling an ethnic taboo that costs the NHS millions: Aisha refused to marry a cousin, so great were her fears over rising numbers of disabled children
Aisha Khan, 36, lost her twin brother, Ahmed as well as another brother Kasim
Iqbal Hussain Mohamed is a British independent politician, engineer and IT consultant who has served as the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley since 2024. Mohamed defeated Heather Iqbal [no relation(?)] of the Labour Party whilst campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform:
“However, the way to redress this is not to empower the state to ban adults from marrying each other, not least because I don’t think it would be effective or enforceable”
Not enforceable? You mean because you are aware that certain UK resident communities tend to ignore our British laws?
Remember when all the UK and International Islamists took to the streets to condemn the Taliban locking up women in FREE Afghanistan? HA HA HHA HA HAH AHAAH !
“By law women are not allowed to be heard outside their houses, although in practice this is not being strictly enforced. Teenage girls are prevented from accessing secondary and higher education. Women are barred from many forms of employment. In December, women training as midwives and nurses told the BBC they had been ordered not to return to classes.
“Kabul exports include carpets, dried fruits, medicinal plants, coal briquettes, grapes, and tropical fruits. Afghanistan’s main export partners are Pakistan, India, and China. “
2.1 Value of UK total trade in the 12 months to the end of December 2024
£1,703.4 billion
down 0.4% on the previous 12 months
Source: ONS UK trade December 2024
Next release: 14 March 2025
Notes: figures in current prices, seasonally adjusted, on a balance of payments basis. Figures include non-monetary gold and other precious metals.
2.2 UK trade in the 12 months to the end of December 2024
Trade direction Value £ billion % change since previous 12 months
UK exports 837.7 -0.8%
UK imports 865.7 -0.001%
I saw an interesting story recently about Elon Musk’s father gunning down three black intruders. South Africa is known for its extreme violence by blacks on whites and whites routinely barricade their houses and are normally well armed.
Anyway, I also stumbled onto this very anti Musk article in the Guardian. The hatred toward Musk is all too apparent. No one hates more than the far Left.
‘You can’t ignore something like this… It’s the maddest thing I’ve ever seen.’
James O’Brien really wishes Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is ‘satire’.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown almost cried on national TV when she was shown Trump’s AI video and what he’s planning to do with Gaza.
Normal people like her were left speechless but not her panellist.
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Apple vows to deal with an issue causing their phones to autocorrect ‘racist’ to ‘Trump’. A spokesperson said the issue is “a bug on tool-displaying words that have ‘phonetic overlap’ before the ‘intended word’ is identified, which includes words with the ‘r’ sound”. Sure it is
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Neom: Saudi forces ‘told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city
Published 9 May 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445
“They found that even after factors like poverty were controlled for, a child of first cousins in Bradford had an 11% probability of being diagnosed with a speech and language problem, versus 7% for children whose parents are not related.
They also found a child of first cousins has a 54% chance of reaching a “good stage of development” (a government assessment given to all five year-olds in England), versus 64% for children whose parents are not related.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
Migrants Sent to the Countryside: Macron Proposes a New Immigration Policy 2022
In order to integrate immigrants who arrive able to speak French, and who can consequently find work quickly, Emmanuel Macron advocates their installation in rural areas, in “areas that are losing population.”
Zephir, a Nature Note! The Herring Gulls were at it this morning at about 6.30 a. m. In summer they can start their pathetic mewling and squawking as early as 3.30 in the morning, making resident’s lives a misery as they try to go back to sleep. The Herring Gulls should be put to sleep. Permanently. Do they transmit bird ‘flu? Another reason to gas Herring Gulls!
If you don’t like gulls, move inland. You have a choice, and can then confine your syncophanic comments as to who was the first person to post a comment on each and every thread.
What many would regard as pathetic, hey ho
Or maybe that happens every week anyway. I do believe it does…
Ouch – don’t start me on gulls – where I a, there is a huge building crane . At night i do a gull count – usually about 40 roosting – so I know I will know I will be woken up at some stage …
But they are interesting to watch – particularly the hierarchy …
As for who signs into a new thread – I thank them – otherwise im wasting time and effort ….
Fed, there’s always been banter (sycophantic? No ) as to who gets pole position ever since I joined this site years ago – long before other prolific 24 hour posters made their presence known on here !! We need some occasional light relief amidst all the grumpiness, choice language, misogyny and endless regurgitated news stories alongside other yawn inducing comments – but we live with it. It’s free speech, we don’t grumble we just scroll past it.
You are not wasting time and effort, you’re doing a fine job.
Jana (pronounced Yana) and Lydia were new names to me this morning. Yana had a beautiful Irish accent and was doing the Busines News. Pleasure to listen to. Have Sean, Felicity and Will been made redundant? No. So that is why the Licence Fee (a.k.a. TellyTax) is going up in April 2025 adding to the Cost of Living Crisis under a new Labour Government. Sorry, cannot remember what Lydia was contributing to TOADY and I am not about to ‘Listen Against’ (a.k a. BBC Sounds).
Just following on from the above – the difference between Jill Biden running the show of dolts – and the Trump cabinet is a chasm ….
The swamp questions are thrown out -and answers – even the stupid ones ….
As a for Elon telling the press that DOGE will make mistakes but identify and fix them fast time – I just don’t think the likes of CNN can deal with it …
Live Reporting too.
Can’t the BBC find any news ?
They’ve even got the verify team involved :
“Where are the Tate brothers now?
We’ve been looking on flight tracking websites like FlightRadar24 and ADS-B Exchange and since the early hours of this morning only one private jet has taken off from Romania and flown west over the Atlantic….”
“Its current destination is unclear, and we can’t yet confirm the Tate brothers are onboard […] We can tell from reverse image searching that this photo is probably recent but we cannot otherwise verify it.”
Sterling work from Verify who continue to be unable to do much an average 7yr old couldn’t. Still, good to see their arrow dept is fully operational; bung another £100 on the licence fee.
Petition to ban the openly sexist “Loose Women” from the media industry.
More details
Day-in-day-out the cast of Loose Women are openly sexist on live television and get away with it. Whilst Andy Gray was sexist on a radio broadcast and lost his job (Whilst we totally agree what he had done is not at all acceptable.)
If 1 person loses their job for one case of sexism, then why do the cast of Loose Women who are openly sexist and discriminatory in their opinions every weekday keep their jobs to spout hatred and bias views?
FULL PAY? HA HA HAHA! Your taxes pay for criminals!
“Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury, who repeatedly punched a constituent during a row in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended for two years.”
But best of all is the Dem/msm/ BBC/BBc pensioner bloc getting all excited about folk shouting opinions rather than asking questions getting sideline or ignored, and all their mates get exposed on secret cover ups to push a singular narrative on pet causes.
NOW who’s ‘screwed’? EU fury as Trump 25% tariffs hit European stock market and panicking officials warn the bloc will ‘react as firmly as possible’ after Donald said bloc was set up to ‘screw the US’
Hope so – hope it’s only just starting … Both NATO freeloaders and the socialist republic of the EU are still in denial – as evidenced by that stoney audience for the JD speech …
Hearing arguments from Amesbury’s barrister as to why his 10-week prison sentence should be overturned, the judge pointed out that the shamed MP was lucky the constituent hadn’t suffered fatal head injuries in the unprovoked attack.
An aggravating factor should surely have been that Amesbury was in a position of trust. A constituent wouldn’t have expected to be beaten up by his MP. There might have been some harsh and four letter words said but that can be no excuse. I think the case should be taken to the next Court up.
Good news… “Claims of white genocide ‘not real’, South African court rules”.
According to the BBC’s Khanyisile Ngcobo, there’s no problem because one judge ruled against an inheritance bequeathing funds to an Afrikaner group and who called the theory “clearly imagined”. Khanyisile says “South Africa does not release crime figures based on race but the latest figures revealed that 6,953 people were murdered in the country between October and December 2024”.
One way to show theory is imagined and not real is to release fuller datasets for public review. But some regimes prefer to call you a fantasist and a conspiracy theorist while hiding potentially informative info.
Terminal – I reckon South Africa might well be on the Elon Musk ‘to do list ‘ .. i get the impression he has a agreed to be the White House tech support for 18 months but maybe he’ll get the administration to look at SA … depending – of course – on budget balancing and a successful outcome with Ukraine…
Isn’t is good to see that serving MPs don’t do time for violent street attacks … when he goes back to their parliament he ll be voting on the laws which control us …. No 2 years for a guilty plea for him …
.. turned into a rotten corrupt country really quick …
Meanwhile some people who were arrested and jailed for shouting in the street after the Southport slaughter still have years to go inside in some cases.
And as for the political sentencing of Tommy Robinson….!
A perfect illustration of the current two-tier justice in this country under this administration…?
“UK taxpayers were charged £194,183 for research on “gay ‘pig’ masculinities” which resulted in a film called OINK!
Here’s a preview. Explicit language”
A girl groomed by a ‘far-right extremist’ who committed suicide gets way more Home page coverage on the BBC than thousands of girls groomed by muslim rape gangs – some of whom also committed suicide.
We now have a situation where you get punished more if you say you will do something than if you actually do it.
Punch somebody to the ground and keep on punching them, community service.
Put a post on FB where you (jokingly) imply violence, a couple of years in prison.
How often do you hear the likes of “I’ll kill him if he’s meeting another woman” or “Bring back the birch, that’ll teach them” when people are talking.
It’s just an exaggeration to show you’re annoyed, you’re not literally going to kill somebody or give them a thrashing.
This two tier ‘justice’ is becoming so obvious and it’s always the Right that suffers and the Left that gets off lightly.
Just like every ‘error’ the bbbc has made is one that makes the Right look bad or the Left look good. I’ve never ever noticed a bbbc ‘error’ which works for the Right against the Left.
“Yes in our household, no arguments about the toilet seat being permanently up”
“Nope, I don’t know why he only wears green T shirts, if you’re trying to camouflage yourself in a bombed out nursery , green would not be my first choice, but each to their own, next question”
Just had a skim through the beeboid version of events…
Ha ha ha, TTK is being tucked up like a kipper; he’s the equivalent of a double glazing salesman trying to get Gerald Ronson to buy a new lavatory window!
Ha ha ha – re the ‘dictator’ jibe, President Trump just bats it away, while TTK stares vacantly through his Alliglasses aand wonders what to say next!
(Tip to TTK – you’re not’negotiating’ with some leftie snivel servant on ‘uman rights’ in a kangaroo court; you’re supposed to be showing strength and fortitude, some proper aggression on behalf of the British people, showing some real leadership and looking after our interests here, not lying down and waiting to get your fat tummy rubbed by a disinterested American Republican)!
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All we hear about at the bbc and msm is nonentities and minor “approved” talent, the groaning “Adele” and so many others with their jumping up an octave now and again to desperately convince etc etc for goodness sake…
Yet there is so much to be found,
This, from south Korea
‘I need help’: Freed from Myanmar’s scam centres, thousands are now stranded
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yr7j18edjo
Perhaps the BBC’s grubby far-Left ‘journalist’ Jonathan Head (known as ‘Dick’) should explain to us why we should bale these people out from the mess of their own making. Not that he cares one bit of course : this is classic BBC virtue-signaling.
It’s almost pure empathy using statements (which I’m sure he wrote or doctored himself) in an attempt to virtue signal how morally superior he is. Same as Bowen and Keane do.
Just for context, Head watched decent, innocent Thai men, women and children get blown up by M79 grenades by the left-wing Pheu-Thai government’s henchmen after they were protesting against a disgraceful amnesty bill to get Thaksin off his corruption convictions and he covered it up with the usual BBC weasel words. His description was ‘Anti-government protests which turned violent’.
The man is everything I despise about the BBC. That example is just one of many. He’s a nasty piece of work.
Stuffed Into Trucks, 78 Thai Protesters Died. Their Killers Are Still Free.
Twenty years ago, a massacre in southern Thailand fueled an insurgency that has never stopped. If no one is prosecuted for it by Friday, no one ever will be.
lol the ‘statute of limitations’ are a classic way Thai politicians evade prosecution. Many are just a few years – so they go abroad until it runs out then come back. They literally write the laws to cover them just in case they get caught.
The usual one is charges being dropped because of ‘lack of evidence’. Which is because it all disappears. Thaksin was/is one the dirtiest of all. He forces people to sign letters of resignation before he gives them a job. Then uses it to blackmail them if they cause trouble. He’s most famous for getting caught trying to bribe a judge:
‘Thailand jails Thaksin lawyers in “snack box” case’
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/thailand-jails-thaksin-lawyers-in-snack-box-case-idUSBKK260867/
Note the lawyers got jailed. Thaksin got away scott free. That’s how it works here.
‘he said his driver had mistakenly picked up the bag with the money instead of an identical one that contained chocolates he had meant to give to court officials.’
Whilst they massacre wherever they are in the majority around the world, what do they do here when they are in the minority?
“The statistics are sobering: Home Office data ending March 2024 shows that 38% of religious hate crimes recorded by the police were against Muslims. Over 70% of young Muslims in the UK who say they experience mental health struggles, also say they have been victims of Islamophobia.”
I could document my “mental health struggles” with the abuse regularly received as an English born whenever visiting my relatives in a Scottish village, or the similar at various Chinese airports with my suitcase ripped apart and things missing and held behind everyone else for examination, but I can’t be bothered, because I recognise that tribalism is a natural human trait.
If you think you can change behaviour or outlook through a DEI course good luck, the vast majority do not need to adjust their behaviour in this country. In muslim countries, hmm
My mental heath crisis in Chinese airports was helped by telling myself
It’s OK he’s Chinese, his battery will run out very soon and circuits fail with no customer service available
That or the battery will go into thermal runaway and burn the airport to the ground.
In this edition Mr AsI gets ‘across’ the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda – or, in other rather more frank terms ‘our batsh*t eco-rules’
Following yesterday’s shock reports: ‘Fish disco’ row risks fresh delays to Hinkley Point nuclear plant (Financial Times); Starmer’s fish disco flap and bees buzzing after Cruiser SB crushed… DEFRA’s rejection of toxic pesticide Cruiser SB in a win for bees, but not British sugar… Why has Starmer declared war on green ‘zealots’ and fish discos? (The ENDS Report, ‘UK’s No 1 source of intelligence for environmental professionals, delivering news, analysis and reference across the carbon, environmental and sustainability agenda.’)
Now today more shock news comes in that: Turbines will be painted black to cut bird deaths (Geraldine Scott, Senior Political Correspondent, The Times)
I see a red door
And I want it painted black
No colours anymore
I want them to turn black…
Maybe then, I’ll fade away
And not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facing up
When your whole world is… Green?
[apologies to The Rolling Stones, 1966]
EU will stick to its world-leading climate goals, even as it prepares to dilute some rules to soothe industry – the FT there with ‘even as’ a quaint little variation on the now all too familiar journalistic ‘despite’
BP went ‘too far, too fast’ over net zero… The chief executive of BP has admitted (Telegraph); BP returns to its roots in oil and gas after ‘misplaced’ optimism for green energy (FT)
But it’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas
But it’s all right, I’m jumpin’ jack flash
It’s a gas, gas, gas
[The Rolling Stones, 1968]
Wind turbines will be painted black to stop birds flying into them in a bid to cut the number being killed by the blades. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs launched a government pilot this week (Times)
Seems there’s somewhat of a wind of change that’s a-blowing through the West.
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
[Bob Dylan, 1962]
The mildly conservative Telegraph boldly risks transgressing against the all-pervading ‘safety first’ regime: I’m happy to serve my guests food that’s out of date Prue Leith (Telegraph)
Mick Jagger, in his Jumpin’ Jack Flash persona, claimed to have been raised by a toothless, bearded hag…
Meanwhile, our delightful, charming deputy PM
Angela Rayner is right to criticise our batsh*t eco-rules…Last week, prime minister Keir Starmer cited the now notorious case of the HS2 ‘bat shed’ – a £100million tunnel built to protect a colony of Bechstein’s bats… The bat species in question is not endangered globally, and nor is there any evidence that trains would interfere with them. But according to the UK Treasury, any legal challenges that could arise from failing to protect the bats would be even costlier than the £100million price tag for the batshit bat shed. (Spiked)
Sometimes these segueways tend to write themselves…
Wuhan lab scientists in ‘ominous’ research… Chinese scientists… new experiments similar to those that may have triggered the Covid pandemic… found a bat coronovirus that can enter human cells… testing in human transgenic mice. (Telegraph)
Quick edit required: new experiments similar to those that may have triggered the
Covid pandemicLOCKDOWNS which were a policy choiceBut as they ease off – as dire economic needs must – on their Net Zero claptrap… work continues on the regime-driven tech-enabled total surveillance state…
Police to access drivers’ personal details… under Labour’s new crime law… 50 million motorists’ data held by… DVLA… names, addresses, date of births, photographs, endorsements, convictions, relevant medical information… to help the investigation of other crimes… Big Brother Watch… opening the door to the creation of a massive facial recognition database (Telegraph)
As BBC TV Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross used to say: “Don’t have nightmares”
“In the Altamont Pass in California, for example, one study found about 4,000 wind turbines killed 67 golden eagles and 1,127 birds of prey in a year. In southern Spain, 252 wind turbines located in an area used by many birds of prey and on the migratory path of many large birds killed a 124 birds of prey in a year.10 Apr 2013”
BP
British Petroleum > Beyond Petroleum > Beyond Profit
Saudi Arabia: £60 billion
Last year, it bought a £598 million ($824 million) stake in oil giant British Petroleum (BP), as well as British Telecom (BT) as part of its “bargain hunting spree”. Saudi investors also have holdings in Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children’s ill health
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
A long article from the BBC starting off with 3 women “from a Jane Austin novel” about to get married.
Not once do the BBC mention Islam or Muslims.
MP calls for first-cousin marriage to be banned
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czend1y0xjko
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Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed speaks out against plans to ban first cousin marriage
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Babies Born with Serious Conditions
It has been known for some time that birth defects, also known as congenital anomalies, are a major cause of illness and disability including infant mortality and that their incidence varies across ethnic groups in the UK. Other studies in the last 20 years have considered consanguinity (marriage to a blood relation), as a cause of birth defects, but these studies weren’t able to rule out other potential risk factors, particularly the effects of deprivation.
What we are doing about it
The study is the largest of its type ever conducted. The team examined detailed information collected about more than 11,300 babies involved in the Born in Bradford project.
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The wait is over and the time is now – Bradford 2025 is the new UK City of Culture. Explore our packed programme of events for 2025.
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The brave daughter who is tackling an ethnic taboo that costs the NHS millions: Aisha refused to marry a cousin, so great were her fears over rising numbers of disabled children
Aisha Khan, 36, lost her twin brother, Ahmed as well as another brother Kasim
First-cousin marriage
Iqbal Hussain Mohamed is a British independent politician, engineer and IT consultant who has served as the Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley since 2024. Mohamed defeated Heather Iqbal [no relation(?)] of the Labour Party whilst campaigning on a pro-Palestine platform:
“However, the way to redress this is not to empower the state to ban adults from marrying each other, not least because I don’t think it would be effective or enforceable”
Not enforceable? You mean because you are aware that certain UK resident communities tend to ignore our British laws?
GBNews yesterday featured Tessa Dunlop. Why does she remind me of rubber?
“My lived experience with the Met police last night.
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https://x.com/Tessadunlop/status/1878489122668433600
Rolf Image .. https://image.vuukle.com/a65aeb3d-bb14-48a1-a132-b97c33b8b7a1-e557d8a6-2e9a-4672-bd10-364629c18de2
Remember when all the UK and International Islamists took to the streets to condemn the Taliban locking up women in FREE Afghanistan? HA HA HHA HA HAH AHAAH !
“By law women are not allowed to be heard outside their houses, although in practice this is not being strictly enforced. Teenage girls are prevented from accessing secondary and higher education. Women are barred from many forms of employment. In December, women training as midwives and nurses told the BBC they had been ordered not to return to classes.
While women continue to be visible on the streets of cities like Kabul, they are required to wear a face covering.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjev9kzxeqqo
“Kabul exports include carpets, dried fruits, medicinal plants, coal briquettes, grapes, and tropical fruits. Afghanistan’s main export partners are Pakistan, India, and China. “
2.1 Value of UK total trade in the 12 months to the end of December 2024
£1,703.4 billion
down 0.4% on the previous 12 months
Source: ONS UK trade December 2024
Next release: 14 March 2025
Notes: figures in current prices, seasonally adjusted, on a balance of payments basis. Figures include non-monetary gold and other precious metals.
2.2 UK trade in the 12 months to the end of December 2024
Trade direction Value £ billion % change since previous 12 months
UK exports 837.7 -0.8%
UK imports 865.7 -0.001%
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers/uk-trade-in-numbers-web-version
I saw an interesting story recently about Elon Musk’s father gunning down three black intruders. South Africa is known for its extreme violence by blacks on whites and whites routinely barricade their houses and are normally well armed.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elon+musk+father+killing
Anyway, I also stumbled onto this very anti Musk article in the Guardian. The hatred toward Musk is all too apparent. No one hates more than the far Left.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
LBC
https://x.com/lbc/status/1894730840266973468?s=61
Vile
https://x.com/i_ammukhtar/status/1894789297573687519?s=61
BBC Comedy
https://x.com/haveigotnews/status/1894823407541191061?s=61
‘You can’t ignore something like this… It’s the maddest thing I’ve ever seen.’
James O’Brien really wishes Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is ‘satire’.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown almost cried on national TV when she was shown Trump’s AI video and what he’s planning to do with Gaza.
Normal people like her were left speechless but not her panellist.
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Apple vows to deal with an issue causing their phones to autocorrect ‘racist’ to ‘Trump’. A spokesperson said the issue is “a bug on tool-displaying words that have ‘phonetic overlap’ before the ‘intended word’ is identified, which includes words with the ‘r’ sound”. Sure it is
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Neom: Saudi forces ‘told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city
Published 9 May 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445
“They found that even after factors like poverty were controlled for, a child of first cousins in Bradford had an 11% probability of being diagnosed with a speech and language problem, versus 7% for children whose parents are not related.
They also found a child of first cousins has a 54% chance of reaching a “good stage of development” (a government assessment given to all five year-olds in England), versus 64% for children whose parents are not related.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
This is how a high trust society dies
https://x.com/G0ADM/status/1894454521943708022
https://www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/cctv-acid-attack-suspects-chippenham/
CCTV shows acid attack suspects in village near Chippenham
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Migrants Sent to the Countryside: Macron Proposes a New Immigration Policy 2022
In order to integrate immigrants who arrive able to speak French, and who can consequently find work quickly, Emmanuel Macron advocates their installation in rural areas, in “areas that are losing population.”
In good news a teen defends his own home against 2 home-invaders:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-teen-shoots-kills-2-194609442.html
Only in wet-britain would this boy be in trouble. Thankfully for him he lives in the US.
Sorry but off now, the Marky Mark show has started again, making it impossible to directly respond to anyone’s comments.
Sometimes, I think I preferred Maxi. at least he / she restrained themselves somewhat
Zephir, a Nature Note! The Herring Gulls were at it this morning at about 6.30 a. m. In summer they can start their pathetic mewling and squawking as early as 3.30 in the morning, making resident’s lives a misery as they try to go back to sleep. The Herring Gulls should be put to sleep. Permanently. Do they transmit bird ‘flu? Another reason to gas Herring Gulls!
Up2suff
A Nature Note !
If you don’t like gulls, move inland. You have a choice, and can then confine your syncophanic comments as to who was the first person to post a comment on each and every thread.
What many would regard as pathetic, hey ho
Or maybe that happens every week anyway. I do believe it does…
Ouch – don’t start me on gulls – where I a, there is a huge building crane . At night i do a gull count – usually about 40 roosting – so I know I will know I will be woken up at some stage …
But they are interesting to watch – particularly the hierarchy …
As for who signs into a new thread – I thank them – otherwise im wasting time and effort ….
You are not wasting your time or effort.
But there are always people in life nicking chips and eating seaweed and dead jellyfish
Fed, there’s always been banter (sycophantic? No ) as to who gets pole position ever since I joined this site years ago – long before other prolific 24 hour posters made their presence known on here !! We need some occasional light relief amidst all the grumpiness, choice language, misogyny and endless regurgitated news stories alongside other yawn inducing comments – but we live with it. It’s free speech, we don’t grumble we just scroll past it.
You are not wasting time and effort, you’re doing a fine job.
didn’t take long for you to chip in, as expected.
Whatever time I choose to post is my business, and why it upsets you I have no idea.
You have no idea my health situation which I choose not to share on here, I cope with it myself, thank you.
TOADY Watch #1 – What? More new hires at the BBC?
Jana (pronounced Yana) and Lydia were new names to me this morning. Yana had a beautiful Irish accent and was doing the Busines News. Pleasure to listen to. Have Sean, Felicity and Will been made redundant? No. So that is why the Licence Fee (a.k.a. TellyTax) is going up in April 2025 adding to the Cost of Living Crisis under a new Labour Government. Sorry, cannot remember what Lydia was contributing to TOADY and I am not about to ‘Listen Against’ (a.k a. BBC Sounds).
bbc reports:-
Starmer says US needs security role in Ukraine to deter Putin ahead of Trump meeting
But is the US actually bothered with what Starmer has to say, bbc feels its important to inform us
Watching the Trump pre Cabinet Meeting yesterday – I thought it became apparent that the swamp is now frightened of them .
Elon admitting mistakes for cutting budgets ? Wow …
Just following on from the above – the difference between Jill Biden running the show of dolts – and the Trump cabinet is a chasm ….
The swamp questions are thrown out -and answers – even the stupid ones ….
As a for Elon telling the press that DOGE will make mistakes but identify and fix them fast time – I just don’t think the likes of CNN can deal with it …
“Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania on jet bound for the US, sources tell BBC”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c70wq044znxt
Live Reporting too.
Can’t the BBC find any news ?
They’ve even got the verify team involved :
“Where are the Tate brothers now?
We’ve been looking on flight tracking websites like FlightRadar24 and ADS-B Exchange and since the early hours of this morning only one private jet has taken off from Romania and flown west over the Atlantic….”
Gripping stuff.
Excellent news. Now we just need to spring Tommy.
“Its current destination is unclear, and we can’t yet confirm the Tate brothers are onboard […] We can tell from reverse image searching that this photo is probably recent but we cannot otherwise verify it.”
Sterling work from Verify who continue to be unable to do much an average 7yr old couldn’t. Still, good to see their arrow dept is fully operational; bung another £100 on the licence fee.
Hound them to death for comments made that “Loose women” make every day about men
Petition
Petition to ban the openly sexist “Loose Women” from the media industry.
More details
Day-in-day-out the cast of Loose Women are openly sexist on live television and get away with it. Whilst Andy Gray was sexist on a radio broadcast and lost his job (Whilst we totally agree what he had done is not at all acceptable.)
If 1 person loses their job for one case of sexism, then why do the cast of Loose Women who are openly sexist and discriminatory in their opinions every weekday keep their jobs to spout hatred and bias views?
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/17071
Gene Hackman and family dead today, sad news.
One of his greatest films is “The Conversation” a very prescient film about surveillance and the consequences for the victims and the perpetrator.
Crimson Tide is a favourite.
French connection – RIP Doyle …
I really liked the way he could do ‘angry ‘ without saying a word … right denzel?
Polish parachutist in A Bridge Too Far.
Not having the slightest interest in films, I just go with the Wizard of Oz every time, it covers most film arguments.
If they disagree, I’ll ask them to prove it, then hit them over the head while they’re rooting through their DVD collection.
It’s a win win situation there.
Wasn’t he the lion or the robot or something ?
FULL PAY? HA HA HAHA! Your taxes pay for criminals!
“Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury, who repeatedly punched a constituent during a row in the street, has had his 10-week prison sentence suspended for two years.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8yy0116y8o
British justice is the best in the world, not, its just a joke
Matched in no small measure by British media. The state of it.
Here’s Cheek #2. and FiHa…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/26/guardian-give-up-kebabs-to-stop-global-warming/
Rather depends on what is in them. Brixton is ahead on population control. Apparently.
Then the day after Emma #1 and Emma #2 discussed the most critical issue evva, on a national broadcaster garnering almost half a dozen commenters…
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/26/climate-change-committee-demands-government-impose-radical-lifestyle-changes-on-uk/
Coordinated blob much?
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/26/another-green-blob-gaslighting-report/
But best of all is the Dem/msm/ BBC/BBc pensioner bloc getting all excited about folk shouting opinions rather than asking questions getting sideline or ignored, and all their mates get exposed on secret cover ups to push a singular narrative on pet causes.
Remember #28Gate ?
Welcome W1APallygate or #Balen2TheSequel
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/26/the-bbc-spent-300000-to-hide-a-report-on-its-anti-israel-bias-its-time-to-let-us-see-it/
Holding to account meets luvvies in media meets lawyers meets… Faaaaaart Riiiiight!
Not working so well any more.
NOW who’s ‘screwed’? EU fury as Trump 25% tariffs hit European stock market and panicking officials warn the bloc will ‘react as firmly as possible’ after Donald said bloc was set up to ‘screw the US’
Are we looking at a new world order?
Hope so – hope it’s only just starting … Both NATO freeloaders and the socialist republic of the EU are still in denial – as evidenced by that stoney audience for the JD speech …
I think the ‘silence’ was just exemplifying the fact that nobody had ever told them the absolute truth before!
They just couldn’t hack the reality, just like our crummy lot in Downing Street
Mike Amesbury is now spared prison: MP walks free from court after appealing 10-week jail sentence for punching constituent in the street
TTK in spades
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14442475/Disgraced-MP-Mike-Amesbury-arrives-court-handcuffs-appeal-jail-sentence-sucker-punching-constituent.html
Hearing arguments from Amesbury’s barrister as to why his 10-week prison sentence should be overturned, the judge pointed out that the shamed MP was lucky the constituent hadn’t suffered fatal head injuries in the unprovoked attack.
I hope he claimed the defence costs on expenses … I don’t suppose anyone inside bothered beating him up …
.. bet he refuses to resign his £ seat £
Nice touch of TTK though – quiet ‘word ‘ …
No sense of honour, service to others, or self responsibility in the far left, ever.
Which is why Trump is destroying the evil, vicious criminal bastards, one by one
Immediately in jail on remand, then Two years in jail for kicking a bin….
I used to dislike people like Cameron but every time I see this starmers face I feel a hate that is visceral
and when I see my energy bill, and council tax bill you lying bastards
An aggravating factor should surely have been that Amesbury was in a position of trust. A constituent wouldn’t have expected to be beaten up by his MP. There might have been some harsh and four letter words said but that can be no excuse. I think the case should be taken to the next Court up.
See below for their lies
Everyone should cancel their gas and electricity direct debit and demand a 30 percent decrease as promised by the lying bastards,
Any deficit to be sent to the Milliband lying bastard for payment.
Good news… “Claims of white genocide ‘not real’, South African court rules”.
According to the BBC’s Khanyisile Ngcobo, there’s no problem because one judge ruled against an inheritance bequeathing funds to an Afrikaner group and who called the theory “clearly imagined”. Khanyisile says “South Africa does not release crime figures based on race but the latest figures revealed that 6,953 people were murdered in the country between October and December 2024”.
One way to show theory is imagined and not real is to release fuller datasets for public review. But some regimes prefer to call you a fantasist and a conspiracy theorist while hiding potentially informative info.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyj1198wy3o
Terminal – I reckon South Africa might well be on the Elon Musk ‘to do list ‘ .. i get the impression he has a agreed to be the White House tech support for 18 months but maybe he’ll get the administration to look at SA … depending – of course – on budget balancing and a successful outcome with Ukraine…
But there are always ‘events ‘…
All otherwise known as ‘a load of bollocks’.
So, I will deduct £600 from my energy bill this year, as an average from the £1000 to £300 that labour promised.
No problem for me, any deficit, starmer will pay it
Isn’t is good to see that serving MPs don’t do time for violent street attacks … when he goes back to their parliament he ll be voting on the laws which control us …. No 2 years for a guilty plea for him …
.. turned into a rotten corrupt country really quick …
“Cyclist robbed of £4,200 bike by hammer-wielding thieves in Regent’s Park”
https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/27/cyclist-robbed-4-200-bike-hammer-wielding-thieves-regents-park-22634029/
Short video
I’m probably wrong, but have a feeling he voted for it..
There’s only one kind of a twat with a £4200 bicycle.
You guessed it Eddy
Never mind, he can console himself at breakfast with his free range, dolphin friendly garlic muesli
bbc doesn’t like this:-
Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14jjxz8re6o
Well done Thailand I say, UK next to deport undesirables?
That’ll be us.
Sent to the local labour liar:
Good afternoon,
could you please provide the required address for billing you for £600 per annum please ?
My energy bill, as promised by you should have decreased by between £300 to £1000 so, I have taken an average.
Unless you are liars, I assume you will be able to cover this as repeatedly promised over and over in your election campaign.
The LABOUR MP who knocked a constituent to the ground then pummelled him has had his TEN WEEK sentence squashed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8yy0116y8o
Meanwhile some people who were arrested and jailed for shouting in the street after the Southport slaughter still have years to go inside in some cases.
And as for the political sentencing of Tommy Robinson….!
A perfect illustration of the current two-tier justice in this country under this administration…?
Just sickening!
Open season on thumping MPs then = simples
I’m making a list.
They call it a cabinet, I call it a list.
Wimmin MPs are more cunning. They just claim they are ‘Pur timmerous defenceless wee beesties’ then the ‘man’ sent them ‘hurty words’ and boom:
2 year jail sentence
Simples.
Metro gave me a smile, they report that the police are looking for a chap who raped a young bloke in the street in London at 2 in the morning.
Police appeal for information… attacker is described as wearing a dark-hooded top….
That would only be about half the male population of London under 40 years old then…..
Hello Digg
Won’t be a white chap then, as they haven’t mentioned the colour
“UK taxpayers were charged £194,183 for research on “gay ‘pig’ masculinities” which resulted in a film called OINK!
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Here’s a preview. Explicit language
https://x.com/WokeWaste/status/1889063900764836023
Look, there’s no evidence that Mr. Cameron interfered with a pig of any gender.
A girl groomed by a ‘far-right extremist’ who committed suicide gets way more Home page coverage on the BBC than thousands of girls groomed by muslim rape gangs – some of whom also committed suicide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g77e57q17o
We now have a situation where you get punished more if you say you will do something than if you actually do it.
Punch somebody to the ground and keep on punching them, community service.
Put a post on FB where you (jokingly) imply violence, a couple of years in prison.
How often do you hear the likes of “I’ll kill him if he’s meeting another woman” or “Bring back the birch, that’ll teach them” when people are talking.
It’s just an exaggeration to show you’re annoyed, you’re not literally going to kill somebody or give them a thrashing.
This two tier ‘justice’ is becoming so obvious and it’s always the Right that suffers and the Left that gets off lightly.
Just like every ‘error’ the bbbc has made is one that makes the Right look bad or the Left look good. I’ve never ever noticed a bbbc ‘error’ which works for the Right against the Left.
At least they didn’t come here by boat.
Reform UK Political Party Broadcast:
Channel 3 – 6.20pm – ITV 1
Channel 1 – 6.55pm – BBC 1
Channel 35 – 7.20pm – ITV 1+1
Reform, yet another party FOR the Moslems.
Nazi salute in support of the Ukraine
Now there’s a caption competiton
“Yes in our household, no arguments about the toilet seat being permanently up”
“Nope, I don’t know why he only wears green T shirts, if you’re trying to camouflage yourself in a bombed out nursery , green would not be my first choice, but each to their own, next question”
“We must stand up to Russia”
“Mr President… Napoleon….”
Next question”
Just as well it isn’t some “Far Right” person like Mme Le Pen!
“We must stand up to Russia”
“Mr President, Napoleon….”
“Next question”
Just had a skim through the beeboid version of events…
Ha ha ha, TTK is being tucked up like a kipper; he’s the equivalent of a double glazing salesman trying to get Gerald Ronson to buy a new lavatory window!
Ha ha ha – re the ‘dictator’ jibe, President Trump just bats it away, while TTK stares vacantly through his Alliglasses aand wonders what to say next!
(Tip to TTK – you’re not’negotiating’ with some leftie snivel servant on ‘uman rights’ in a kangaroo court; you’re supposed to be showing strength and fortitude, some proper aggression on behalf of the British people, showing some real leadership and looking after our interests here, not lying down and waiting to get your fat tummy rubbed by a disinterested American Republican)!
Pathetic.